CHAPTER 447: CHAPTER 294 VOID

Chen Xuantian made a quick move, rushing back to the mountaintop.

At this moment, the Black and White Beards were still fighting desperately. The White-bearded one truly went all out, even using ground techniques. With a cross-lock on the Black Beard Man, he restrained him, sealing his meridians, breaking his Qi flow, preventing him from using energy to fly.

At the same time, he fully enhanced his realm, gathering Daoist energy, attracting celestial thunder to crash down with a bang, causing the Black Beard Man to howl and dance, both of them getting scorched and smoking by the thunder fire, seemingly intending to perish together.

Actually, though the Black Beard Man was fierce and insane, his actual techniques were inept. He purely relied on his strong physique, delivering powerful punches, causing massive damage purely through instinctive output. Frankly, it was because his master couldn’t bear to kill him, just wanting to subdue him.

Now, this old White-bearded man, having received a barrage of punches, was awakened by Little Yuanying, probably realizing that continued softness would truly lead to severance of the sect line, bringing shame to the ancestral teacher. He grit his teeth and began to use lethal moves.

But that Black Beard Man, though his Dao Body was strong, could not withstand the Refining against the Divinity Transformation, nor endure the waves of Heavenly Thunder punishment, lightning strikes. At this moment, he screamed in a high-pitched and wretched voice as if being sliced by a thousand knives, the sound resonating through the mountains, shocking all. From his mouth and nose, large clumps of smoky, thick black substance spewed out, like excrement from the mouth.

That large clump of filth, like a serpent, coiled around, seemingly attempting to counter-seize the White Beard Man. But critically, at this point, the White-bearded man had also cultivated a special Secret Technique similar to Little Yuanying’s, using a layer of refined special Xuanming Daoist Qi, condensed into a water-film-like protective layer, safeguarding his body, making it impossible for the filth to invade his body.

Thus, taking this chance of entangled confrontation between the two, Chen Xuantian circled around, carefully observing, satisfying his curiosity.

Non-Immortal

Heavenly Demon

Body Seizing

According to Yuanying’s memory, her master was seized by the Heavenly Demon. Is it something like this filth? But what exactly is this thing?

Chen Xuantian tried extending his index finger, simulating the Daoist Qi of the Black and White Beards, and poked at that large clump of black, thick filth.

Upon contact, the fingertip was quickly corroded by the power of the filth, turning black and stinky like touching concentrated sulfuric acid. The filth seemed to have a life of its own, climbing up along the blood network, seemingly wanting to escape the Black Beard Man and seize Chen Xuantian instead.

Chen Xuantian then pinched with his thumb, severing the index finger, cutting off the link path, watching that severed finger turn to fly ash, vanishing into nothingness.

What to say...

’Nascent Soul’, can basically be understood as the cultivator condensing their Primordial Spirit, all their memories, emotions, knowledge, experiences, and personality into one, defining the collection of information that makes up a ’True Man’.

From Chen Xuantian’s modern man’s thinking perspective.

If the cultivator’s Dao Body is likened to a computer’s hardware, then the Nascent Soul is the software. Software has no physical form, just a pile of digital codes, a collection of information, but when it collaborates with hardware, these seemingly incomprehensible meaningless data, arranged in a particular order, become a collection of computer data and commands, becoming various operating systems, management systems, and running programs.

Therefore, as long as the ’Nascent Soul System’ is intact, breaking through Body Refinement/upgrading the hardware will not change the essence of this ’True Man’.

Of course, if the hardware is damaged, or the software system and operating programs are incompatible, mismatched, unsupported by the hardware, unable to correctly transmit data, or correctly read data, then the hardware naturally cannot function, cannot read commands, resulting in what’s famously known as, ’magic doesn’t work, just doesn’t work’.

Of course, merely not working is actually not a big deal, but if it’s inconsistent, sometimes working, sometimes not, like being infected by a virus, data errors, skill imbalances, device overload, leading to self-destruction, causing hardware collapse, burning the hardware, it’s over, needing to seize a Dao Body/replace with a new computer.

So Heavenly Demons are similar, resembling a computer virus. Who knows what nonsense those True Men encounter when their Nascent Souls emerge, wandering outside and absorbing, infecting them, causing the Nascent Soul System to be compromised. Unspeakable erroneous codes and zombie scripts begin to usurp system control, finally leading the hardware to madness and frenzy, at worst, killing wantonly, morphing abnormally, at worst, collapsing and disintegrating, exploding on the spot in a bloody mess.

As an aside, according to Chen Xuantian’s research on Divine Teachings, the reason why the Blood God’s son’s great method is so formidable is that this method refines the blood and spirit into one, granting the Nascent Soul a physical form, meaning the Blood God’s son is not just software but also comes with hardware support.

In other words, this thing is like a pre-installed system data disk, able to adaptively link interfaces according to environmental changes, transforming through the Blood Talisman, adapting and connecting to various organisms’ nervous system interfaces, invading and installing its Blood God’s Son system within the hardware, rapidly completing formatting and system installation, ultimately activating programs, occupying and usurping.

Hmm, so the Primordial Spirit Method is essentially programming...

But then again, who exactly is that Divine Lord?? How did someone from a world that burns wood come to create a Blood God’s Son great method that is an all-platform compatible independent system that can run across all heavens?? Isn’t this more incredible than typing a QR code with a left hand 1 and a right hand 0 to create an operating system!?

Ahem, went off track, anyways, Chen Xuantian, though he only learned a bit of programming basics in college, at an entry level, but thanks to the Blood Talisman Divine Sect’s Blood God Main Body’s Heavenly Book’s general outline and various practical examples from the Cult Members, has learned a little bit.